A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis

I added this book to the side panel. Here is a basic outline.

Lessons of History 

(these should be kept in mind when thinking about today's movements as with the myths below)

[1] Myth of Liberal North (also many long term failures including continual segregation)

[2] Long History of Oppression (no easy solution of simply facing up to problem and it being over)

[3] Media Often Not Helping

[4] Myth of the White Moderate  (civil rights movement generally unpopular including MLK up to his death & beyond)

[5] Breadth of Cause -- Desegregation, Criminal Justice, Economic Justice and Global Justice (Vietnam, colonial movements, world peace etc.)

[6] Young and women not respected  

Lessons from the Montgomery Bus Boycott (general lessons)

[1] Perseverance thru failure

[2] Anger leads to action

[3] Sense of possibility = action

[4] Collective organizing

[5] Disruptiveness

[6] Activism = cost/sacrifice including psychological, economic, family and physical (violence)

[7] Mentoring/community of support important

[8] Learning from experience

[9] Multiple ways used against protests ('few bad apples' ... discredit as commies or outside agitators / only for self ... harassment ... legal) and ways to respond

[10] Value of multiple strategies of resistance